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| Nanya will initiate a capital expansion plan |
4/20/2009 |
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The Formosa Plastics Group, the parent company of Taiwan's DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology, will subscribe to new Nanya shares through a private placement, according to company sources.
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| Ablecom announced a new touch-screen DPF |
4/20/2009 |
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Ablecom Technology Inc., a professional provider of digital media solution, recently announced the expansion of its DPF product line into Touch Screen Media of HR-401T. With this extension of product line, Ablecom offers customers more alternative choices when doing DPF business
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| Cheap Smartphones Sales rise |
4/20/2009 |
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IDC telecommunications market analyst, Mark Novosel, said the decline was due largely to customer migration to Telstra's Next G network.
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| Sony Ericsson unit sales shrink |
4/19/2009 |
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In the first quarter 2009, mobile handset manufacturer Sony Ericsson saw its sales shrink by almost 40 percent compared to the quarter before. Unit sales declined by the same percentage. Now the company announced another round of job cuts.
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| Teradyne Inc plans to cut 350 jobs |
4/19/2009 |
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ATE vendor Teradyne Inc. plans to cut 350 jobs and will implement more pay cuts, according to a new regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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| Dell and HP to increase business by low-end CPU |
4/17/2009 |
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Dell announced a deal to sell its latest Intel Atom-based netbooks through China's top cellular carrier, and rival Hewlett-Packard rolled out a new line of thin-client computers, most based on Via's x86 processors. The announcements reinforce the fact much of the growth in consumer and business computing is for low-end systems, especially in emerging markets.
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| Xilinx Inc decided to cut workforce by 6% |
4/17/2009 |
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Programmable logic supplier Xilinx Inc. Wednesday confirmed that it expects to cut up to 200 jobs, or 6 percent of its global workforce, as part of a series of restructuring measures designed to improve structural operating efficiencies.
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| Google Profit and Revenue rise in Q1 |
4/17/2009 |
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Google grew its profit and revenue in the first quarter, ended March 31, despite a tough economic environment that is affecting online advertising spending, the company's main revenue engine.
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| Nanya Tech prepare to raise contract chip price |
4/17/2009 |
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Nanya Technology, Taiwan's No.2 DRAM maker, is in talks with clients to raise the contract price of its chips by 10 percent later this month, following a recent cut in production and recovering demand.
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| PC shipment fell less than expected in Q1 |
4/16/2009 |
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PC shipments declined less than expected in the first quarter, propped up by consumers' continuing interest in low-cost netbooks, IDC said in a report Wednesday.
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| Skype on iPhone now possible |
4/16/2009 |
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Skype recently released its free iPhone app to complement its free Skype-to-Skype VoIP calls. PC World's Liane Cassavoy gave Skype for iPhone a favorable review.
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| Apple to introduce new iPod Shuffle also |
4/15/2009 |
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The new version of the Shuffle includes 4 GBs of NAND flash memory, while the first edition of the second-generation model included only 1 GB, iSuppli said.
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| Challenges ahead for lithium vehicle batteries |
4/15/2009 |
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The design problem with lithium-battery packs is balancing performance, economics, and safety. The two key variables are the battery-cell design and the cell-management electronics.
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| Elpida stock rises on government support |
4/15/2009 |
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The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry told Taiwanese authorities on Tuesday that a plan is under way for the use of public funds to boost Elpida's capital once Japan's parliament passes in the current session a new public fund scheme for ailing companies, the NHK said.
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| Intel beats expectation, but failed to put guideline ahead |
4/15/2009 |
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Citing continued difficult economic conditions and limited visibility, Intel said it would not provide a second quarter revenue outlook. For internal purposes, Intel said it was planning for revenue to be approximately flat.
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| DRAM vendors trouble on 50nm migration |
4/14/2009 |
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From the preliminary estimation, it takes at least US$ 210 million to just upgrade the equipment in this single immersion production line in order to convert a 70 K monthly capacity to immersion technology. With other migration related cost, it might take US$ 100 million CAPEX.
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